TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

In the rush to build, test and deploy AI systems, businesses often lack the resources and time to fully validate their systems and ensure they’re bug-free. In a 2018 report , Gartner predicted that 85% of AI projects will deliver erroneous outcomes due to bias in data, algorithms or the teams responsible for managing them. Even Big Tech companies aren’t immune to the pitfalls — for one client, IBM ultimately failed to deliver an AI-powered cancer diagnostics system that wound up cost

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 14, 2022

Learn from the founder of Apprentice & Likeable Media Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube Today’s guest is a best-selling author and serial entrepreneur Dave Kerpen. He’s founded companies such as Likeable, Apprentice, and Remembering Life. His books include “The Art of People” and “Likeable Social Media”. On top of this, he’s built a huge audience on social media, and he’s got nearly 700,000 followers on LinkedIn.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

There’s a growing appetite for alternative search engines. At least, that’s the crux of the argument Richard Socher, the former chief scientist at Salesforce, likes to make. In 2020, Socher co-founded You , a search engine that uses AI to understand search queries, rank the results and parse the queries into different languages (including programming languages).

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OurCrowd

JULY 14, 2022

New Delhi: Using Nitric Oxide Nasal Spray (NONS) six times a day for seven days can accelerate the removal of SARS-CoV-2 from your nasal cavity, preventing the transmission of the virus while also protecting high-risk patients from severe disease, according to data from clinical trials published Tuesday in the journal The Lancet Regional Health Southeast Asia.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

Thanks to the pandemic, teams are more distributed than ever. For some companies, that’s led to a disconnect between lower-level employees and leadership, the latter of whom are generally skeptical of remote work. According to a survey from GoodHire , 75% of managers want workers in the office, citing the potential lack of focus and loss of company culture.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

Black founders raised 1.3% of last year’s $330 billion worth of U.S. venture investment, totaling just over $4.3 billion. So far this year, Black founders have raised a smaller 1.2% of the $125 billion invested. The past few months have seen private market investors reduce their investment pace as a possible recession looms, but that 1% figure has barely budged, meaning economic rain or shine, it’s always a challenging time to be a Black founder.

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Feedough

JULY 14, 2022

Taxes are a huge part of our lives; there’s no. Read more. The post What Is Pay As You Earn (PAYE)? appeared first on Feedough.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

When Andrew Hines started Canvas Medical in 2015 he couldn’t have predicted that telehealth would go from niche to norm or that a pandemic would inspire entrepreneurs to launch a new fleet of digital health startups that needed fresh infrastructure. He just knew he wanted to build software for physicians like his wife, who wasted hours a day on data documentation. “I thought there has got to be a better solution,” Hines told TechCrunch. “I started Canvas to design the sof

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OurCrowd

JULY 14, 2022

As the worth of Bitcoin plunged within the final eight months, some safety corporations have noticed an affect on ransomware exercise. Read more here. . The post [Cybersixgill in Crypto News BTC] Is Cryptocurrency’s Crash Causing Headaches for Ransomware Gangs? appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

Hivery , a startup that bills itself as an “optimization platform” for retailers, today announced that it raised $30 million in a Series B round led by Tiger Global, the embattled private equity firm, with participation from Blackbird Ventures, AS1 Growth Partners and OneVentures. CEO Jason Hosking told TechCrunch via email that the proceeds will fuel the growth of products designed to help brick-and-mortar businesses make decisions about physical space and product displays.

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OurCrowd

JULY 14, 2022

The decline in the value of cryptocurrencies has created a cash rush that is pushing many underground exchanges to their breaking point. Read more here. . The post [Cybersixgill in TechTarget] Cryptocurrency crash triggers crisis for dark web exchanges appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

No merchant likes a bad customer review and Okendo , a customer marketing platform, announced $26 million in Series A funding today to continue developing its customer review tools for e-commerce brands. Base10 Partners led the funding round and was joined by Craft Ventures and existing investor Index Ventures. It gives the company $33.5 million in total capital raised to date.

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OurCrowd

JULY 14, 2022

PALO ALTO, Calif., July 14, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Increased cyber threats and government directives have made cybersecurity a top priority among critical infrastructure organizations. A zero trust security architecture is the gold standard for blocking and containing threats, but there’s been heavy skepticism around the practicality of implementing zero trust in operational technology (OT) environments with the mix of legacy and modern equipment.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

Stripe is the latest high-profile fintech company to take a massive valuation cut as the market downturn begins to hit the sector especially hard. Last valued at $95 billion , the payments processor has cut the internal value of its shares by 28%, sources told the Wall Street Journal. The Journal reports that the valuation cut comes from a 409A price change, which means that Stripe hasn’t decreased the value of preferred shares sold in the last round.

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OurCrowd

JULY 14, 2022

Aviv Wolff has a pretty chunky ambition: cut out animals from the human food chain. “We want to eliminate the need for animals in our food system in order to save resources, land and reduce emissions,” says Wolff, who is CEO and founder of Remilk, an Israeli startup leading on precision fermentation. Read more here. The post [Remilk in Sifted] Can startups succeed in cutting out animals from the food chain?

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

You might think given the chatter in the startup world that venture capitalists are short on funds — after all, we’re hearing about young tech companies finding themselves marooned between stages, hitting up investors with smaller capital pools than prior backers and turning to equity crowdfunding to keep their cash balances healthy. And yet new data from PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association indicate that while the pace of U.S. venture capital investment is slowing

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OurCrowd

JULY 14, 2022

When deciding who to hire, we think we’re rational, logical actors. But sometimes, our logical brains get short-circuited when processing too much or too little information. Having too many choices can be paralyzing. This “paradox of choice,” a term coined by psychologist Barry Schwartz, is the frustration we feel when choosing among too many options.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Oh hey, and welcome to Thursday! It’s been another intense day with a lot of news happening. We’ve picked the cream of the crop for you. Oh! And if you want to be part of Disrupt with your startup, don’t forget to apply to the Startup Battlefield 200 !

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

Kraig Swensrud. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Kraig Swensrud is the founder and CEO of Qualified , a pipeline generation platform for Salesforce. As a founder, it’s easy to say, “Of course, we’ll pivot!” But actually pulling a pivot off is no easy feat. How do you set yourself up for success in this new world? Which levers should you pull first? How do you ensure you can secure capital when needed or that your company is undeniably fundable?

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

Lightyear , a U.K. fintech startup that promises consumers commission-free trading on U.S. and European stocks, is officially extending into Europe from today. To power the expansion, which will see Lightyear land in 19 new markets, including the Baltics and much of Western Europe, London-based Lightyear has also raised $25 million in a Seres A round of funding led by U.S. venture capital firm Lightspeed, with participation from other notable backers including Virgin Group , which counts Richard

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

Systemiq Capital , a backer of early-stage climate tech startups, says it has secured $70 million to kick off its second fund. The London-based VC aims to raise as much as $130 million more; that would mark quite a step up for the firm, which says it has funneled $30 million into 19 startups since 2018. As far as putting that money to use, Systemiq says it is out to fund founders who are focused on making large industries and cities “more efficient and sustainable.” In practice, it&#

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

Forethought has been on our radar for a long time — the company won our 2018 Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt , and just a few weeks ago, CEO Deon Nicholas joined Vanessa Larco from NEA on TechCrunch Live to talk about pitching and pitch decks: Today, it’s my pleasure to tear down the company’s 23-slide deck that helped it raise a $65 million Series C late last year.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

There’s no shortage of headlines about the onset of “crypto winter.” Amid a growing pile of bankruptcies , one of the buzziest startups in the business, the NFT marketplace OpenSea, announced a major layoff just today. Behind the scenes, however, plenty of founders and VCs are doubling down on the promise of largely decentralized, blockchain-based outfits, and toward that end, one of the “more interesting parts of crypto right now” is at the “intersection of s

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

Nuro, the autonomous vehicle delivery startup that is valued at more than $8.6 billion, is closing its Phoenix facility as it shifts its commercial strategy away from the desert metropolis and toward the San Francisco Bay Area and Houston. Nuro told employees that the Phoenix Depot location would be closed by October 1, according to an internal email viewed by TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

Mike Greene founded Hi Marley in 2017 and has since raised $41.75 million to fund the AI-powered insurance chat platform. Hear how the company — which was designed as an SMS texting platform — is finding product market fit as the insurance landscape rapidly changes, and how Underscore VC Lily Lyman provides support for the company. This TechCrunch Live event opens on July 27 at 11:30 a.m.

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